NEW YORK (AP) _ A Connecticut teacher who helped save students’ lives during the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre has a book deal. G.P. Putnam’s Sons announced Tuesday that “Choosing Hope: Moving Forward from Your […]

Connecticut’s system for treating children and young adults with psychiatric issues is inadequate for addressing what has become “a substantial public mental health burden in the state,” according to a task force that released wide-ranging recommendations Tuesday on how the state can improve services.

While one playground was opening in Stamford at West Beach over the weekend in memory of Sandy Hook victim Jesse Lewis, a playground in Hartford’s Elizabeth Park for victim Ana Grace Marquez-Greene was vandalized.